Method of and device for conveying building materials



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METHOD OF AND DEVICE FOR CONVEYING BUILDING MATERIALS Application filed. June 16, 1926, Serial No. 118,459, and in Germany June 22, 1925.

This device relates to a method and apparatusfor conveying material such as bricks, mortar, etc. used in the construction of buildings from the place of storage or preparation,

to the workmen at the various parts of the building which is under construction.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide elements which are easy of transportation and which can be setup and used in '10 connection with any type of building.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for conveying the material to a hoist and to carry such material from the hoist in such a manner'that various kinds of material desired can be obtained from various points of location and delivered to any desired point of useon the building construction. 7

A further object is to provide a means for conveying the material that is easy to'load and unload and in which the unloading will be rapid'and without possibility of injury to the material. I

The device consists of a system of tracks located both on the ground and on the various floors of a building connected through'a hoist with conveying receptacles or carsto run on the track. Located in the track system are movable track sections to shunt'or'switch" the receptacles to any desired radiating track.

These movable track sections are supported to rotate.

The receptacles or cars are so constructed that severalload units of material can be con- Ve'yed either for depositing difierent materials at the, same or differentv points. or the same material at different-points. i

7 Furthermore the cars are adapted'to discharge their content in a manner to prevent injury to the material. 1

Various other] objects andadvantages will appear from the following description, reference being made tothe drawing showing the f embodiments of the invention in which F 1g. 1 is a diagrammatic view showing the track system with the floor plan of a building."'..".. 7

Fig. 2 is a plan View showing the means for switching the cars to the various tracks.

notes the track sections.

drawing, 1' represents the track supported by Fig. 2. V Fig. 4 is an end elevation of Fig. 3. L

V Fig. 5 shows an element of the device 5 mounted in a vehicle for transportation.

Fig. 6 is a top plan view showing the car mounted on the track.

Fig. 7 is an end elevation of Fig. 6.

Fig. 8 is aside "view showing a form of Fig. 8 is aside View of the device shownin of the showing hoist that maybe employed. Fig. '9 is a view similar to Fig. 7 showing a modified form of track and car.

F igsflO andll show a modified form of 7 track and receptacle. 1 p y Figs. 12 and 13 show modified formsof rcceptacle or carfor use with the type of track shown in Figs. 6 and 7. 1

Fig. lt is a diagrammatic view showing an arrangement of the devicewith the floor plan of building. I 1,

In the diagrammatic view of Fig. 1, A represents the hoist, with the track section B mountedthereon which canbeswung in the are shown by the dotted line-B. D is the tra'cksystem mounted on the ground which consists of the track sections C, C 0 .0 connected'by the switch elements C Erepresents a similar track system. mount ed on the floor or staging of a building in construction, consistingof the track sections E, E E Fl -E E E connected by the switch ingelements E I Y In the diagrammatic View. ofF 14a similar system is shown as in Fig. l with Q; representing the hoist andwR thejtrae'k system both on and outside the building of which Sade- Referring more particularly to the device as shown-in the variousother figures of the the posts 1 and the braces 1 a A plurality of tracks radiate from a common center from i which they are spaced an equal distance. A track member 2 whose length is twice the distance from the above mentionedcentcr to the end of the track section 1 is mounted on a support'consisting of socket member Qflwhich is rotatably mounted on the pedestal 2 By the means above described this track section 10o load by gravity. is provided with two straps by means a' workman on V carrlers can, by reason of. the partitlon, carry thereby holding compartments.

can be rotated into alinement with anyone of of whose function. and purpose will be more definitely pointed out.

Mounted on the tracksections by'means of the flangedwheel bare the load carriers l. These carriers consist of the inverted U- shaped member 6 (Figs. 3 and 4) having the flanged wheel 5 journaled at the base of the U,

the flange of the wheel straddling the rail. The inside of the legs of the U-shaped member engage the guiding members 1 of the track the load carriers in a vertical position. From the sides and bot-tom of each of the U-shaped members extend the members 7 forming an open sided box. Parallel with the side member 7 are the partitions 8 which divide each of the box-like members into two A trough shaped member 3 having sides and closed at one end is supported on the load carrier 4: and is secured therein by the pivoted bail 9. This trough shaped member directly carries the load and can be operated to act as a chute by moving it on its support in the carrier l to discharge its The trough. shaped membei 0. be used as a pack and carried by his back. Each of the load which it can two of the'devices 3.

In the modification of Figs. 6 and 7 the rail is formed of two U-shaped angle irons O secured to thesupports with the flanges of the irons extending laterally to the device. The

load carrier consists of two plate-like members P secured together by the roller X.

y Each of the plate members P are provided "cular notches "T in their upper with laterally extending sides H having ciredges'. Supported in such notches T bys'means of laterally load carriers P extending bearings T isthe trough-shaped having handles Z. at their lower edges by means indicated by the position shown to the' right OIFlg27." i

In the modification shown in, Fig. 9 the load carriers P are of box-like. form having the bottom member G pivoted to swing to a posivided with brackets N, upon which the load can-be supported.

As a means for moving the load carriers to a position to be transferred from the rail system on the ground to the rail system on the of which the load car-1- riers can be swung to dischargethe load as is building or from the building to the ground, there is provided a hoisting member consisting of thevertical guide member Q on which the rail member 1 counter part in construction to the railmember of the track heretofore described is adapted to be raised or lowered to a position adjacent the rail system on the ground or building and the railv member swung into alinement therewith to transfer a load carrier from the rail on the hoist to either of the rail systems or in the opposite direction. V

The modifications of Figs. 10 and 11 show a modified track system in which a narrow platform-like scaffold L supported in a somewhat raised position is the equivalent of the track of the other figures which have been de- 3 and 4 but provided with'ball castor wheels.

Load carriers of this type could be used to run on any plane surface as the ground or the floor of the building. The hoist is modified to accord with this modified structure by providing a shelf-like bracket J on the movable member of the hoist. p

Fig. 5 shows how the switching device of my invent-ion can be loaded, in a truck for transporting it. 1

Having described the nature of my invention and its operation, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is: v

1. In a conveying system for use in conveying material from stations on the ground to stations on a building in construction, the

and a track system on the building, load car-.

riers adapted to run on the track systems, ofa

hoist for transferring the load carriers: in

either direction from and tosuch track systems consisting of a verticallymovable element, a track section attached to the movable a pivotal connection between the movable ele- V element, a guide for the movable element and on the hoist can be swung in a horizontal plane to bring such track section into alinement with thetrack of either the groundtrack system or the building tracksyst em,

2. In a system for use in. conveying material 1 from stations on the ground to stations onthe building in construction, said second men- .tioned stations being at a greater elevation than said firstmentioned stations, a plurality of tracks radiating from a common center and the ends of which are equally spaced therefrom, arotatable track element adapted to be moved into alinementwith any one-ofsaid tracks. I .2 1

8; In a conveying system for conveying ma- .terial, a carrier, a plurality of unitary sections in spaced horizontal planes, each section con sisting of a support, a track mounted on the support, movable track sections, consisting of a track section, a support therefor, means for pivotally supporting the track sections on the support whereby such sections can be as- GUSTAV soHLossER. 

